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the shell appears to be slightly smoother than in eggs of Aeluroedus maculosiu. 

 The colour, however, is not at all darker, but lighter than that of our exaniiiles 

 oi Ae. maculosus. The egg measures 43-5 x 1805 miu, 



Chlamydera cerviniventris GoiiKl (I'l. X., lig. 17;. 

 Campbell, p. 206 ; North, p. 58. plate B. ii. fig. 8. 



Nest open, cnp-shaped, con.sistiiig of twig.s, dry plant-.stalks, and strips of 

 dry bark. 



The eggs are slightly glossy, and have a whitish, pale greenish white, or pale 

 greenish olive ground-colour, covered with a labyrinth of thread-like lines and 

 scribbles. The egg in the Tring Miisenm was taken at Cape York, North Queens- 

 land, (in November 1.5, 1901, by Mr. Bertie L. Jardine. It measures 40-0 x 

 27-9 mm. 



Dr. A. B. Meyer {Ahh. /■. :ool. Mus. Dresden, vol. v. No. 10. p. 2, 1895) 

 received an egg of a CIdumi/dera from German New Guinea, on which he founded 

 an imaginary new species — " ('. recondita." As C. ceicihicentris became soon 

 afterwards known from that country, he considered the egg to belong to that 

 species, and that is jirobably correct, but as the eggs of the various species of 

 CItlanu/deru are very much alike, not absolutely certain. 



Chlamydera maculata (Gnuld). 



Campbell, p. l'J8. pi. 'J ; North, p. 41. pi, B. ii. fi^'s. 4, 5, 0. 



The fullest description of the remarkable " bowers " of these birds, and of 

 their nests and eggs, is given by North, I.e. The eggs resemble those of the other 

 species of the genus. 



The Tring Museum does not yet possess eggs of the Spotted Bower-bird. 



Chlamydera nuchalis nuchalis (Jiud. it Selby) (PI. X., figs. 15, 16). 



Campbell, p. 203 ; North, p. 51. pi, B, ii, fig. 3. 



A full description of the bowers and nests and eggs of this species is given 

 by Mr. North. 



We have received from our friend Mr. G. M. Mathews six eggs, taken in 

 January 1907 by Mr. (!. E. May at Point Keates, Northern Territory, Australia. 

 They vary very much : the ground-colour is pale olive-green, pale olive, cream, 

 or creamy white ; the markings consist of a lahyrinth of thread-like lines of deep 

 brown colour (fig. 10), with underlying greyisli patches, or of olive-brown lines, in 

 others more of spots and dots than of lines. 



Chlamydera nuchalis orientalis Gould. 

 Campbell, p. 204 : North, p. 55. pi. B. ii. figs. 9-12. 



Nest and eggs do not seem to ditfer from those of Chlamydera 7tuc/ialig 

 7imhalis. 



Chlamydera guttata Gould. 



North, Viclnrian Xatnmlisl .\vi. p. 10, 18'.lSt ; Campbell, p. 1078 ; North, Nests und Kgijs, p. 48. 

 pi. B. ii. 6g. 7. 



Nests and eggs do not differ essentially from tliose of other species of 

 Chlamydera. 



